Well... I didn't expect that!

I needed to plane down some rough cut cherry tonight for a project I'm working on so I grabbed a few boards from my stack and sent them through the planer. With the first two done I started with the last of 3 boards I selected off of my rack. All three boards looked very much the same in their rough cut state however this last board exited the planer with straight green grain so certainty not cherry. I was really shocked by what I was seeing. They all looked the same going into the planer. Any idea what it might be? I thought maybe poplar?

Yep It sure looks like Poplar

Charles Hans said:

Yep It sure looks like Poplar

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Agreed

Looks like poplar.

Woods all have their own distinctive smell.

Poplar and Cherry do not smell the same.

The cutoff saw may be the best tool to be able to get the smells.

One more vote...it appears to be poplar.

Looks like it's a poplar vote... ...

Thanks guys. I had assumed that since the outer rough cut was "red" like the other cherry wood that it too was a piece of cherry since I have never purchased any poplar wood before. So will the green grain stay in the wood or does it fade away?

The green will fade to red/brown on exposure to air and UV eventually.

Don't know if this will give you the look your looking for, but in the past I have taking poplar with green shades, I put a thick application of walnut stain, left it for 20 to 30 min then wipe and let it dry. I then sanded down back to bare wood, the result was it completely removes the green in favor of a darker shade because the green portion was softer wood soaks up the stain much deeper. This tends to make the grain really pop even after sanding to bare wood... it is a trick I have done several times, but I usually just put a poly coat or three after I sand to bare wood...worth a try, maybe try with cherry stain after the walnut treatment might look ok...

I just made drawers out of poplar. Some of it was green. I used transtint Bordeaux which is like a wineberry red. Now, the drawers are a uniform Bordeaux color.